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...challenge as the pendulum starts back in the current re-regulatory climate will be to maintain a sensible balance. Says Swartz, the railroad president: "The question should be, 'At what point do regulations become no longer instructive, and entirely counterproductive?' " The Constitution's framers, notes Richard Epstein, University of Chicago law professor, were "deeply suspicious of government." But after the experiences of the early 1980s, today's legislators will be wary of too little government as well...
...there is the matter of finances. All the property of the University is in the name of the Corporation. They control all the University finances, and this control is subject to no veto power above. Thus, though the system of University government is one of checks and balances, the pendulum seems to be stuck far over on the side of the Corporation...
...China last autumn, has watched with apprehension the government's recent attacks on intellectuals, students and those considered "bourgeois liberals." "Many of those responsible for the abuses of the Cultural Revolution 21 years ago are still in positions of power and authority," says Kriss. "I'm concerned that the pendulum may be swinging back to the bad old days...
...Kansas, a fortress of Reaganism, the state legislature seems to be moving leftward as the farm crisis persists. Says Richard Larimore, recently retired administrative assistant to the minority in the state senate: "The pendulum is swinging back and is already approaching the middle. In Kansas, this will probably be the last big legislative year for major economic- development programs because people are figuring out that that means giving money to the wealthy...
...Reagan revolution," observes Political Analyst Richard Scammon, "never moved as far as many on the left feared it would, or many on the right hoped it would." Just so. In American governance, the pendulum rarely makes radical swings. Change generally comes by evolution, not by sudden transformation. The only radical changes, the elections of Lincoln and F.D.R., for example, occur at times of severe national stress...